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The last pieces of our first progression step (tier 7) are coming together with Naxxramas 25 being released today, on April 26th, we added custom tuning changes to most bosses in a way that keeps the content tier challenged, the reasoning behind why we decided tier 7 dungeons needed custom tuning ( % health increases, % damage increases, more powerful boss spells etc.) stems from the following two reasons:

- We had to offset the benefits provided by 3.3.5a as compared to the 3.0 era.

- Tier 7 content was usually considered very easy on retail, and with roughly 2 months left for Ulduar to release, we don't want people to finish the raids immediately and become demotivated of clearing them again.

The dev team intended for the encounters to feel fun and doable while still rewarding good team play and good personal mechanics. Further tuning may be applied post the raid's release based on player feedback.

For the previous Naxx10 man changes, you can check our changelog over here : https://www.xwow.eu/changelog, Naxx25 man tuning changes will be posted eventually as players form up and progress through the instance.

Later edit: due to an issue with Cloudflare, this news post was never visible to regular members, we've taken actions to prevent this from happening again and apologize for the issue.

As you might know, today was the day we were going to release Naxxramas, Vault of Archavon and Eye of Eternity on 25 man difficulties, as according to the timeline. We’re bringing both good and bad news.

The good news is you managed to clear VoA on 10 man so Archavon is now accessible on the 25 man mode as well.

The bad news is we’ve decided to delay releasing Naxxramas on 25 man mode until Naxxramas 10 is properly cleared, just so we can tune and fix the bosses that we haven’t seen you progress on yet. Remember that Eye of Eternity 10 man will open once the first raid on the realm manages to defeat Sapphiron in 10 man Naxxramas and obtain the Key to the Focusing Iris. Eye of Eternity 25 will be available after Sapphiron will be killed in 25 man Naxxramas. :(

We’ve re-tuned some of the 10 man encounters based on last week’s raid progress and the feedback that was given to our staff members.

This weekend, in addition to the double XP, we’re also having a 2x rate on Honor Points while doing battlegrounds, and we will be deploying a patch to auto-balance pvp teams by using cross-faction tech. (it’s in an early-BETA state so bugs may be present, keep us posted on the balancing issues, we might have to turn the system off if it backfires).

We’ve implemented cooldown resets after dueling.

Talking about PvP, have you noticed that the arena points distribution never happened? That should be fixed and arena points should be properly distributed starting on Sunday 19 April, at 23:59 Server Time.

Naxxramas will open its doors to players today, April 12, 2019 at approximately 19:00 CEST (Server Time) on 10 man mode.

Once again, as we’ve pointed last week, we will decide whether we need to tune the 15 bosses on 25 man based on the upcoming week’s progression and number of groups that form and manage to clear the encounters.

The first boss in Vault of Archavon will also be open at the same time while The Eye of Eternity will open once at least one raid group manages to kill Sapphiron and obtain the Key to the Focusing Iris.

We will also release The Obsidian Sanctum’s 25 man mode at the same time as Naxxramas and VoA 10 man. And based on your previous week’s performance we’ve decided to tune the difficulty a bit to make the Sartharion encounter more challenging.

In addition we’ve applied a fix to Twilight Fissure so that the damage no longer hits players that are out of the fissure’s radius. Naxxramas, VoA and The Eye of Eternity (25) are scheduled to be opened on friday (next week) and tuned accordingly based on your previous progression.

Keep in mind to post any bugs you might encounter during these raids to the respective section on the forum so we can easily keep track of them and attempt to solve each of them as swiftly as possible.

On an ending note this weekend will yet again host a double XP event, so happy leveling! We are planning to add a bonus honor event next weekend so look out for that as well.